I am using the language of cultural identity and Western modern in the contemporary. I am exploring the art history of traditional folklore to index the iconography that speaks about the socio-cultural structure that existed in the highland Peru. I am intersecting the visual language to speak on cultural inheritance submerged in the American modern and how it feels within contemporary culture. I think of the traditional representation of the figure that is influenced by the western art and the transformation into geometric form and to let the viewer think about the disruption that happens between this traditional forms.

Maria del Pilar Arrieta

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I emphasize the glimpses from life, socio-culture, and the diaspora within the communities that I make part of in the contemporary culture. In this painting, I made a representation of a female portrait seemingly floats above the ocean and is submerged in a setting of patterns and blocks. I use references of modern geometric art, and the forms and shapes that inform the pre-Columbian art. I am narrating stories from experiences of the diaspora highlighting stories on life experiences within cultural tradition and how those experiences feel submerged in American culture. The ambiguity of ideas let me subvert some of the oppression from societal norms and the urge to talk about the nostalgic, and the unconscious to sense of awareness on the unsettling with the subject matter.

Forces of Nature

In my painting I overlap the figurative with geometric shapes to create landscapes that narrate stories from the present in contemporary culture. I am indexing the geometric shapes that appears in pre-Columbian art but also mirror the geometric abstraction from modern art. I am using the representation form of the female portrait to emphasize cultural identity through gender, race, and survivance; to open a conversation in the contemporary diaspora.

Girl in the Rose Pants

I like to portray the interaction between the figures and nature from life and this painting is a representation of a young male portrait capturing the moment and expression to pause and observe what is happening on life. In this painting, I am using the thematic of the young male figure to reflect on how they live in the modern world. The figure is immersed in a background of patterns and shapes to suggest the culture in which he live, and I use the language from folkloric tradition with modern to think about how we are inherited to the traditional way and living the contemporary culture.

Marcelo and the Soccer Ball

I am using the language of the modern art with cultural identity to merge narratives where the figurative and the geometric shapes are intersecting. My painting is a representation of the female figure within the gender role and its position in the Latino portrayal. The painting of a female talks about the youngest and the celebration of the liveliness. I am using the allegories from the Western renaissance of the goodness and the beauty to attempt to connect with the allures through the expressions of the self.

Young Lady Holding Leaves

I am using the metaphors to represent the how we feel with the interactions of human conditions and the unconscious. In this painting, I want to connect on human experiences, and the feelings of resilience, and vulnerability in a time of social change. The red chair denotes some aspect from live like being strong, bold or being supportive. I am emerging with the portrayal of the female figure to talk on the role of the women in the present. I am using the language from modern art using geometric bold shapes thinking on the space and time, but also in what we know as we have grown with our own culture and values

The Red Chair

Young Lady with Flowers

This painting is a representation of two female portraitures overlapped in a set of patterns and geometric abstraction. In my work, I use the imagery from experiences and stories indexing traditional art and Western modern that can lead to a political conversation. My painting let me reflect about the agency in female portrayal in contemporary culture, within race, migration, and displacement.

Maria del Pilar Arrieta

collection: Modern

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